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    The pain beneath the surface
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    Jen Kleinknecht
    May 20
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    I Travel to the Mythopoetic Space

    I Travel to the Mythopoetic Space

    And bring back Froot Loops
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    Pamelapolis
    May 20
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    Whittled Crosses

    Whittled Crosses

    GiaB prompt #2–19: wood
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    Carolyn Hastings
    May 16
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    How Powerful Is Art, Really?

    How Powerful Is Art, Really?

    Just two souls swimming in a fish baggy
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    Aimée Gramblin
    May 16
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    Theodore McDowell
    May 15

    Variation on Old Couple in a Seaside Bistro

    Tenderness coarse as mending twine

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    Dorothy “Dee” Umoh
    May 15

    Vérité▪︎

    I know these halls

    I was stopped by whispers
    That scratched the air
    Like keys on iron rust

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    Susan Sagarin
    May 14

    The Appointment

    Someone always cries

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    Jim Dutton
    May 13

    FICTION

    Maypop

    Fruit of the passionflower

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    2 responses
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    Aimée Gramblin
    May 13

    Photograph of splatter paint covered man smoking a cigarette

    Pizza Place Poetry Reading

    An evening suspending in time, circa 2004

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    Go to the profile of Theodore McDowell
    Theodore McDowell
    May 13

    Old Couple in a Seaside Bistro

    Grief within love

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